Op-ed

I. Importance Another huge component of rhetorical situations is the exigence of an issue. Exigence is defined as “an imperfection marked by urgency” (Palczewski et al. 227). Exigency is the urgency around an issue and is crucial for understanding the importance of the problem. This cancelation came about after the Trump administration announced that they would be cancelling DACA and reforming their current immigration regulations. This issue is huge, affecting thousands of American citizens…

Readers know of the phenomenon at college campuses regarding charges of “microaggressions” and “triggers.” It’s been going on for a while and is part of a growing censorship movement in which professors, administrators and others are accused of racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, gender bias and ethnocentric thinking, among other things. Connected is the rejection or harassment of commencement and other campus speakers who are not politically correct. I hate that phrase, but it just won’t stop…

In the stirring speech “In Beyond Vietnam- a Time to Break Silence” Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. makes a compelling and tumultuous argument about the atrocities rampant across the Pacific Ocean; in spite of being criticized by many civil right leaders who thought it hurt their cause. King was ultimately able to advance the cause for social equality by drawing connections and correlations between the war in Vietnam and begging the question in regards to the war raging on the home front:…

There was never an op-ed in the Washington Post or the New York Times that complained of the terrible lack of energy efficiency in the nation’s dishwashers. There were never any protests calling for government action. But the government still decided to issue this rule. The…

government. They gain power by election being either voted for by people or by a definitive group in the government. And a politician’s purpose is to support and create laws or policies that would govern the land and its people. In Thomas L. Friedman’s op-ed article, he stated that "politicians see evil, hear evil, and speak evil" in order to present to the citizens that politicians have taken their power for granted and to indirectly speak to the politicians to polish their actions. Although…

whole to go through the devastation caused by incidents similar to that of Sandy Hook. Since 2013 there has been over 1,000 mass shootings in the U.S. Back in 2009 Molly Ivens wrote the op-ed titled “Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns” and I believe it has more significance today than it ever has. In this Op-ed she explains her stance on the issue. As an owner of a gun in rural America, Molly Irvin surprisingly persuaded me, however my experiences lead me to believe a different solution…

Is there a more tragic story than an innocent person going to prison? Tragic, and powerful. That’s why The Shawshank Redemption is one of the most beloved movies of our time. That is why we’ve all heard of this quote from an esoteric 18th-century English guy, William Blackstone: “It is better that ten guilty people escape than that one innocent suffer.” And why real-life stories of the exonerated always make headlines. Here’s the first line of a Washington Post story about Glenn Ford, who was…

trouble when forced to stay at home. However, there cases on the opposing side in which curfews actually prevent teens from getting into trouble, but just as many or more cases found teens in performing these criminal activities. In the article, “OP-ED: Why Don’t Youth Curfews Work?” by Mike Males, the issue of the concept of curfew is brought up. Do these curfews set on teens actually prevent crime, or do these curfews actually give teens more of a reason to participate in the events that the…

The Constitution created three branches of government for a specific purpose. These branches are used to carry out, create, and interpret the law of the land. The legislative branch is used to carry out the law, the executive branch creates the laws, and lastly the judicial branch interprets the law of the land. When an issue is put to question in our society, individuals look and rely on to the judicial branch to resolve the issue. Whether the courts rule that the issue has indications of an…

illness will not only improve their quality of life, but help to erase the public stigma regarding mental illness, thus efforts must be made from a public health standpoint to implement a policy that provides these services to all children in need. ( OP-ED, 2015) According to the American journal of Psychiatry, “Populations that may be particularly vulnerable to lower rates of use of mental health services include ethnic minority youth and the uninsured.” (Kataoka, 2002) , thus the policy will…